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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2294 for Friday October 15th, 2021

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2294 with a release date of Friday
October 15th, 2021 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. A new California ham radio station has a very terrestrial mission. Students in India receive a gift that opens the
airwaves to new licensees â-" and the first modern microsatellite turns
40. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2294
comes your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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NEW CALIFORNIA HAM STATION HAS EDUCATIONAL MISSION

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story this week is about a new amateur radio
station on the West Coast of the US that is designed to be used by
hamsâ-"but also nonhams. Its goal is to expand appreciation for what
goes on on-the-air as well as terrestrially. Ralph Squillace KK6ITB has
the details.

RALPH: A $35,550 grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications is
helping fund the creation of an amateur radio station at the new
Chrisman California Islands Center in Carpinteria, California. Amateur
radio station K6TZ will function as an educational outreach facility
and become part of the center's exhibit gallery. The Santa Barbara
Amateur Radio Club and the Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation will make
the station available to the public when it is not on the air so that
visitors to the nonprofit center can access in in the gallery. They can
view an interactive presentation about amateur radio and other forms of wireless technologies, especially as those technologies relate to
researchers and travelers on the islands off that part of the coast.
Webcams will be connected via the club's microwave data network, giving
gallery visitors a look at the islands themselves.

Club trustee Levi Maaia, K6LCM, said in a press release that the
station will be open next year. The club website describes the station
as [quote] "a fully-functional HF-VHF-UHF and microwave amateur radio
station." [endquote]

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.


(DAN ROMANCHIK KB6NU)

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GIFT PUTS STUDENT CLUB ON AIR IN INDIA

PAUL/ANCHOR: Meanwhile in India, another new amateur radio station is
being put together for a newly formed student club. This club has also benefitted from a generous benefactor. Graham Kemp VK4BB picks up that
story for us.

GRAHAM: For more than three dozen students at a government school in
India's Nalgonda District, lessons are about to become more than just
academic. Forty-three newly licensed radio amateurs are creating their
club on campus and have just received equipment for their shack from
the nearby Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club in Hyderabad (Hydra-Bod). The
Dindi Amateur Radio Club's faculty supporter is Sayed Jilani VU3OND,
the teacher who encouraged and coached the students to take the exam
for their restricted grade amateur radio licenses.

The shack's new equipment, however, is a gift from the Lamakaan Club,
whose vice president is Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE. Ashhar is a well-known experimenter and accomplished homebrewer whose designs for the
microBITX open-source HF SSB transceiver have brought him a global
reputation. The club presented the equipment to the student club
earlier this month. The students are now QRV with a microBITX
transciver, a power supply, an antenna and coax cable. Calling CQ from
a school in their village in Telangana, the students are ready to take
on the world.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Graham Kemp VK4BB.

(TELANGANA TODAY)

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DEEP SPACE ATOMIC CLOCK ENDS MISSION

PAUL/ANCHOR: NASA has ended the mission of an experimental navigation
aid that transmitted from deep space for two years. Kent Peterson
KC0DGY brings us the details.

KENT: NASA has a message for its Deep Space Atomic Clock, the
ultra-precise spacecraft-navigation aid that's been in test mode for
two years: Your timeâ-"however precise it may have beenâ-"is up. To its
credit, the instrument outlived its original one-year test mission that
began with its launch in June of 2019 on board General Atomics' Orbital
Test Bed spacecraft. On September 18th of this year, that journey came
to an end when NASA turned the clock's power off. Its ambitious
function was not without some high points: NASA credits it with
breaking the record for stability among atomic clocks sent into space.
Hosted on board a spacecraft, the clock had the same mission as
its ground-based counterparts: keeping time measurements to aid in the calculations of a spacecraft's journey, factoring in that radio signals
travel at the speed of light, 300 thousand kilometres per second. As
spacecraft travel farther and farther from Earth, onboard atomic clocks
such as this one are seen as preferable to the current ground-based instruments.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory say the clock has one
more mission to complete, however. Its data will be used in the
development of Deep Space Atomic Clock-2 another tech demo. Clock-2 is
to be onboard NASA's Venus mission set for 2028.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

(NASA)

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FIRST MODERN MICROSATELLITE TURNS 40

PAUL/ANCHOR: Happy anniversary to UoSAT-1. Satellite enthusiasts
recently marked the 40th anniversary of its launch into orbit, which
took place on October 6th, 1981. Developed by a team based at the
University of Surrey and led by Martin Sweeting G3YJO, it was the first
modern microsatellite accessible to amateur radio operators.

The BBC carried an interview with the professor, who discussed the
evolution of his largely homebrew project and its subsequent launch by
NASA. See the text version of this week's Newsline script for a link to
the BBC podcast.

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pb ]

Meanwhile, three ham radio CubeSeats made by students from the
Philippines and Australia were sent into orbit from the International
Space Station on Wednesday. Australia's Binar-1 and the Philippines'
Maya-3 and Maya-4 arrived at the ISS in August via a Cargo Dragon
spacecraft. Details about their operating frequencies can be found on
the AMSAT-UK website.

(AMSAT-UK)

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ARISS CONNECTS DEAF UK STUDENTS TO ISS

PAUL/ANCHOR: Right on schedule, students at the Mary Hare School for
the Deaf in the UK had their QSO with astronautMark Vande Hei KG5GNP
aboard the International Space Station. To hear this first-of-a-kind
ARISS contact follow the YouTube link in the text version of this
newscast's script atarnewsline.org

[https://youtu.be/wmI3qKZgjJ4]

(YOUTUBE)
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FRANCE CELEBRATES YOUNGEST REUNION ISLAND HAM

PAUL/ANCHOR: Amateur radio loves to celebrate its newest and youngest
operators and in France, all eyes are on a certain proud 10-year-old.
With more, here's Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY: Congratulations to Florian Barret of Reunion Island who at age
10 has received the call sign FR4UG, making him the youngest radio
amateur in France and its Overseas Territories. The announcement was
made recently by the amateur radio club in Saint-Leu in Reunion Island, following Florian's training by Jacky FR4NP. France has only one class
of amateur radio licence and the French HAREC exam contains 40
questions.

According to an article in the outremers360.com website, Florian was
inspired to study to become a ham after watching his father get on the
air using a Citizens Band radio.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(OUTREMERS360.COM)

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RSGB CONVENTION AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE

PAUL/ANCHOR: Although the 2021 Online Convention of the Radio Society
of Great Britain is over, if you missed it you can watch the interviews
and other parts of the program on the society's YouTube channel.
Individual presentations are not yet available but much of the other
content can be watched using the link that appears in the script for
this week's newscast.

[www.youtube.com/theRSGB ]

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BRAZIL, NORWAY JOIN POTA PROGRAM

PAUL/ANCHOR: Two new DXCC entities have joined Parks on the Air. Vance
Martin N3VEM brings us that report.

VANCE: [actuality audio "CQ CQ POTA, CQ Parks on the Air"] And now in
Parks on the Air news: In September POTA welcomed Brazil and Norway to
the program, which means we now have parks in 102 different DXCC
entities. Activators in Brazil can now choose from over 700 different
parks to activate, while activators in Norway, which is rich with
nature reserves, have more than 2,500 parks to choose from. In POTA
events, coming up on October 16th and 17th is the Autumn Support Your
Parks Event. This is a great opportunity to get out for low-key weekend activity, and make some contacts before the weather turns cold, or for
our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, as seasons start to warm up.

In our last item of POTA news we're excited to announce that September
of 2021 was an all-time record-setting month for POTA with more than a
quarter of a million contacts made in one month. Although logs are
still coming in, the QSO count is currently 263,478.

This is November 3 Victor Echo Mike with your month ending September
2021 Parks on the Air update. Be sure to visit parksontheair.com for information about the program, and pota.app for spotting, park
information, leader boards, and more.

(POTA)

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WRTC COMPETITOR LIST RELEASED

PAUL/ANCHOR: The Italian WRTC 2023 organization has released the list
of competitors for this four-yearly competition of the best contesters
in ham radio "The Olympics of Amateur Radio." The event has been
delayed by a year because of COVID-19. The list's URL can be found in
the script of this week's newscast at arnewsline dot org.

(https://www.wrtc2022.it/score_redirect.asp?alltl=1 )

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BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur
Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including
the N7OEI repeater in Arizona's Navajo and Apache Counties on Thursdays
at 7 p.m. local time.

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ALEXANDERSON ALTERNATOR TO TRANSMIT ON UN DAY

PAUL/ANCHOR: The Alexanderson Association is once again marking United
Nations Day - Sunday the 24th of October - by transmitting a global
message in Morse Code on the historic Alexanderson alternator at the
World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden. This year's message
was written by Parul Sharma, a Swedish human rights lawyer and a
proponent for sustainability.

The CW message will be transmitted on 17.2 kHz. The transmitter uses
the call sign SAQ. Test transmissions will be conducted on the 22nd of
October between 1100 and 1400 UTC and listeners are invited to submit
comments to info at alexander dot n dot se.

The event itself will be carried live on the association's YouTube
channel.

(THE ALEXANDERSON ASSOCIATION)

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IRELAND'S HAM EXAM MAY GET NEW OVERSEER

PAUL/ANCHOR: In Ireland, the regulator is seeking applicants to oversee
the amateur radio exam there. Jeremy Boot G4NJH has the details.

JEREMY: Ireland's communications regulator, ComReg, is looking for organisations to oversee the country's amateur radio exams after the
current agreement expires with the Irish Radio Transmitters Society on
the 21st of December. The Harmonised Amateur Radio Certificate, or
HAREC, is to be set, organised and corrected by whoever enters into the
new agreement with the regulator afterward. ComReg is expected to
publish its invitation to the tender process shortly on its website.
The IRTS has been administering the 60-question HAREC exams on paper.
There has been no option to take the exams online. A report on the
Southgate Amateur Radio News website noted, however, that the Radio
Society of Great Britain has been using a Dublin-based provider for its
own online exams.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(SOUTHGATE, COMREG)

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AUSTRALIA BEGINS ALLOCATION OF 2x1 CONTEST CALLS

PAUL/ANCHOR: The allocation of the new 2x1 contest callsigns has begun
in Australia. Be listening sometime soon for 2x1 calls with the
prefixes VK, VJ and VL followed by the state number and the letters A
through Zed. The applications for these callsigns started being
accepted on the 13th of October by the Australian Maritime College on
behalf of the Australian Communication and Media Authority.

They will cost 70 Australian Dollars and are limited to only contest
use during a 12-month period after which all Advanced licence holders
can apply for them, no reservation of the call for a further year will
be allowed.

(ACMA)

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WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for members of the International
Amateur Radio Contest DX Club who are using the call sign 4U2U until
October 31st. They are celebrating United Nations Day, which is October
24th. This station counts as a contact with Austria, prefix OE, for DX
purposes and it counts as 4U for the Vienna International Centre for
the CQ DX Marathon Award. Send QSLs to UA3DX, direct or by the Bureau.

The CQ WW DX SSB contest taking place on October 30th and 31st offers
the opportunity for a number of stations in Indonesia, Kuwait and
Hawaii.

In Indonesia, a team using the callsign 7A2A will be operating from a
contest station in central Java. QSL using LoTW or send QSLs direct or
to YB2DX.

In Kuwait, Abdallah, 9K2GS, will be active in the contest as 9K2K. Send
QSLs to EC6DX or QSL via LoTW.

Be listening for Alex, KU1CW, in Hawaii, using the callsign KH7Q from
Oahu Island. He will also be active before and after the contest using
the callsign KH6/KU1CW. QSL KH7Q via LoTW or direct to AH6NF.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: WI-FI? WHY NOT? A DIFFERENT KIND OF DX

PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story we look at a most unusual kind of DX.
It was accomplished recently using a mode that is usually associated
with very local signals. Ed Durrant DD5LP tells us about it.

ED: It's hardly the preferred mode for DXing, but Wi-Fi certainly went
the distance recently for two hams in Italy who succeeded in making
contact between the island of Sardinia and the Tuscan summit of Monte
Amita, 304 kilometres, or nearly 200 miles away.

The connection made across the Tyrrhenian (TUH-REEN-EE-YUN) Sea was a
project undertaken by the Italian Center for Experimental Radio
Activities and was reported recently on the Wi-FiPLanet website. The
report didn't say who the hams were but the Italian center's spokesman
Mirco Paesante (PIE-SANTAY) IZ3HAD called the achievement a world
record for Wi-Fi and a first step in creating [quote] "a wide-band
digital network to connect all Italian ham radio users to each other
and to other services provided by our associations." [endquote] Those
services include D-STAR, Echolink and Amateur TV.

The 802.11a link was created using radio modules on both ends from
Ubiquity Networks based in San Jose, California. The modules were
connected to 35dBi 5GHz parabolic dish antennas.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ed Durrant DD5LP.

(WI-FIPLANET.COM)


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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the ACMA; the Alexanderson Association; AMSAT-UK; the ARRL; COMREG; CQ Magazine; Dan Romanchik, KB6NU; David
Behar K7DB; NASA; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Outremers360; QRZ.com; Radio
Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
shortwaveradio.de; SOTA Reflector; space.com; spacenews; Ted Randall's
QSO Radio Show; Telengana Today; Wi-Fi Planet; WTWW Shortwave; and you
our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can
write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. We remind our listeners that
Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that
incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us,
please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate
you all.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun WD9GCO in Valparaiso Indiana
saying 73. As always we thank you for listening.

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